A long Career as a Painter

                 

                                                          William Glackens  1870-1938

                                                    Study for ‘The Dream Ride’   c. 1923

In 1923 Glackens created The Dream Ride (Collection of Mrs. Patricia Arden, New York), a large, imaginative “dream” picture of Lenna [his daughter] mounted on Spit Fire, her hobbyhorse, against a fanciful landscape The painting is derived from one of Lenna’s crayon drawings based on her toys (Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale) and on stories that father and daughter made up.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.   -- Henry Ward Beecher